Synechron achieves CMMI® Maturity Level 3
Joins Global Elite of only 82 Companies

Pune, Saturday 23rd April, 2005:

Synechron is a Global IT Solutions & Services provider headquartered in the New York metropolitan area with offices in Connecticut, Charlotte, Colorado and London, UK, and
a state of the art development Centre based in Pune, India. Synechron provides a range of solutions to a wide spectrum of industry verticals with domain expertise in the
Financial Services, Insurance, Biotech/Pharmaceuticals, Energy and Utilities, Manufacturing, Telecom and Internet Media & Technology.


Synechron’s core competency lies in providing application development and maintenance solutions to a spectrum of top clients across these different industry segments.

Synechron has handled turnkey projects for leading companies such as Merrill Lynch, Bank of New York, Dun & Bradstreet, Genta Corporation, Knoll, Criticall (UK), Anite Public Sector(UK), Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Zero Beta Fund, Connex International, Emerald Technology Solutions, Equity Trading, Viewpoint Corporation & Modem Media.

Synechron’s India Development Centre-Synechron Technologies, Pune, today officially announced their achievement of Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI ®) Maturity Level 3 Certification as defined by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Carnegie Mellon University.

The rigorous assessment based on SEI’s Standard CMMI Based Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI) Class A method was led by Software Quality Center’s (SQC) SEI Authorized Lead Assessor, Krishnan Puthucode.

Commenting on this significant development, Mr. Tanveer Saulat, General Manager & CPO, Synechron Technologies said,

“Achievement of CMMI certification is a testament to Synechron’s b focus on establishing Best Practice based Systems & Processes and is in keeping with our commitment to delivering best-of-breed Quality and Service Delivery Levels to our clients.

This is a significant step forward for us in our ongoing endeavor to incorporate, standardize and optimize the right systems, processes and procedures to facilitate a sustainable paradigm of dynamic, “managed growth” and thereby continue to not merely achieve, but surpass world-class Quality standards.”

Mr. Krishnan Puthucode, SEI Authorized Lead Assessor adds, “With this certification, Synechron Technologies becomes one of the earliest growing SME's in Pune to achieve a CMMI rating. In its category of growing SME’s, it’s the earliest in Pune to adopt the new and improved CMMI model, achieve a rating, and benefit from implementing practices to improve project execution and quality. Worldwide, only 82 organizations reporting assessments, have achieved CMMI Level 3, as per the latest profile data.”

He further added, “Synechron has made excellent progress in leveraging CMMI Level 2 and 3 practices, thereby ensuring that projects are planned and executed effectively. This, coupled with incredible commitment from the management and the entire team will go a long way in using the CMMI® practices effectively towards a journey of continuous improvement, ultimately resulting in optimal customer satisfaction. This achievement is a really exciting one, since it enables Synechron to join the elite band of companies world wide that have achieved this benchmark.”

Salient Features of this achievement for Synechron:

• Only 82 companies worldwide have achieved CMMI Level 3 certification, out of over a million software houses, as per recent available data-Synechron has joined an elite fraternity whose members number only 1 out of every 125,000 software solution providers.
• Less than 50% of these are SME's and hence Synechron’s achievement provides testimony that CMMI has an important role to play in the unique settings of SME’s as well.
• Synechron is one of the very few (less than 10) organizations that has leveraged & extended the use of integrated process and product development practices from CMMI to not merely achieve service level quality but to ensure equal focus on inculcating great people practices, motivating and nurturing people to work in an integrated environment with multiple cultures & seamlessly amalgamating and synchronizing Onsite and Offshore development to successfully evolve a world class Global Delivery Model.

About SQC

Software Quality Center Ltd. (SQC) is a high end organizational change management company, and a partner company with Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Carnegie Mellon University for the CMMI® Product Suite, and enables organizations to leverage and manage organizational change through the model based improvement programs like CMM and CMMI. SQC’s multicultural team comprises SEI Authorized Lead Appraisers and consultants. SQC India has worldwide offices and presence in Boston-USA, Canada, South America, South East Asia (Philippines, and Taiwan) and in India.

About SEI and CMMI

The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a federally funded (US DoD) research and development center operated by Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, with a Vision to improve software and systems development into a well disciplined and systematic approach from an ad hoc and labor intensive approach. Toward this SEI owns and develops Capability Maturity Models (CMM) and Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) which are an accumulation of best practices from the industry that help organizations to achieve better processes for high quality product delivery capability.

®: Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and CMMI are registered in the US Patents and Trademarks Office by Carnegie Mellon. SEI is a service mark of Carnegie Mellon University.